Curriculum Design and Assessment
Contact hours
- 8 hours per week
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning. For Online unit delivery, learning is conducted exclusively online.
Prerequisites
Aims and objectives
In this unit you will explore effective curriculum and assessment design through the identification and application of key concepts associated with the development of curricula. You will consider the central roles that intended learning outcomes, aligned learning activities, and formative and summative assessment play in ensuring an effective curriculum. In addition, you will become practiced at unit curriculum mapping techniques and quality assurance methods that are built into curricula to facilitate student learning and the professional development of teachers as reflective practitioners.
1. Analyse key concepts in the design of effective curricula and apply these to practice.
2. Apply curriculum mapping techniques in order to ensure alignment of learning outcomes, activities and assessment within a unit.
3. Design and develop formative and summative assessment strategies that are aligned with the curriculum, facilitate the provision of feedback to students and encourage student learning.
4. Analyse a curriculum and apply quality assurance methods aimed at enhancing student learning and the development of teachers as reflective practitioners.
Courses with unit
You will be able to refine the intended learning outcomes in a unit you teach or will soon teach, improve the assessment and feedback methods you use, and at the same time learn how to build-in quality assurance methods into your practice to meet internal and/or external accreditation requirements.
In this unit you will explore effective curriculum and assessment design through the identification and application of key concepts associated with the development of curricula. You will consider the central roles that intended learning outcomes, aligned learning activities, and formative and summative assessment play in ensuring an effective curriculum. In addition, you will become practiced at unit curriculum mapping techniques and quality assurance methods that are built into curricula to facilitate student learning and the professional development of teachers as reflective practitioners. All assessments are individual, except for one that gives you the choice of completing it as a pair or individually.
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment, general skills outcomes and content.
Teaching methods
Assessment
General skills outcomes
- Analysis skills
- Ability to tackle unfamiliar problems
- Ability to work independently
Content
- Constructive alignment
- Writing and refining intended learning outcomes
- Summative assessment methods
- Assessment rubrics
- Feedback to facilitate student and teacher learning
- Designing and assessing group work
- Quality assurance methods, including curriculum mapping
- Australian higher education institutions and students
- Curriculum models
- Learning technologies and their application in facilitating learning opportunities and assessment
- Enabling reflective practice
Study resources
- Reading materials and text books.
Reading materials
Text books